Lyric Meaning

In an interesting way, Kanye further pushes the idea that his life of fame and sinful temptations has changed him as a person and left him mentally exhausted. This is seen on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as well in alternate album cover VI.

In the story he tells throughout his albums, especially MBDTF, he emphasizes how the life he fantasized about is what is corrupting him and bringing him down. The blank CD and slapped on tape to seal shows an exhausted attempt to put out his message. More than that, it acts as a subtle plea to the listeners to focus just on the music as there are deep and complicated, often contradictory messages behind his lyrics. The irony is that while he perceives this to be his most complicated work yet, the album is presented as a simplistic blank CD.